Facebook: a tribuna dos invisíveis.

Abstract

The present article has as its aim to approach the articulation between the digital genres and their users involved in situations of communication in the social networks. For that purpose, we limited ourselves to the virtual media Facebook which, over the last years, has become the place where Internet users express their divergent ideas and, above all, expression of hatred, prejudice and political militancy. Thus, in order to survey and analyze the profile of some users, we followed their activity online during four months (from May to August 2020) and, after that, we created some categories for better problematize these profiles (“Narcissus”, “Dorian Grey”, “Viscount of Sabugosa”, “Alex Delarg” and “cave prisoners”). Our goal is not to exhaust the theme, but to raise some indicators for the debate about the behavior of an increasingly intolerant, conservative and narcissistic society. We directed ourselves to some possibilities of reading the above-mentioned material, without the pretense of finalizing the debate categorically or provide definite appointment about the posts. Therefore, we count on the contribution of some contemporary theorists, anchored to a sociological contribution, with the purpose of sustaining the discussion around the testimonies, memes and photographs published in the virtual space